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Bountiful Baskets!

A friend recently told me about Bountiful Baskets. You pre-order your basket of fresh produce at the beginning of the week and then pick it up at a given time on Saturday morning. It was only $15 for ALL of the produce! AND, but wait…it gets better, you can also get home made bread, granola, and local honey!!!! I was curious so I participated this past week and look at all the food I got!

fresh produce from Bountiful Baskets

So once I got all the produce sorted out, I needed to cook with everything. It felt a bit like Iron Chef. You get your basket, not sure what items you are getting, and then get to plan recipes based on those ingredients. Robby enjoys hunting, and I’m trying to clean out the freezer with last year’s venison, so I used that to make some delish meals. Here’s what I’ve come up with so far: meat loaf, venison chili, venison picadillo, mock mashed potatoes with cauliflower, roasted brussel sprouts, pluot jam (if you haven’t had a Pluot, you need to! They’re pretty good!), and brown-sugar cherry cakes! And now a few pictures of the yummies!

Venison Picadillo

Brown-Sugar Cherry Cakes before they were baked.

Brown-Sugar Cherry Cake after baking. YUMMY!

Fresh cherries. Are they so pretty!

Pluot Jam

It was ALL so good and worth the 10+ hours of cooking I did in the kitchen in 24 hours. My husband was so nice and even fell asleep at the kitchen table so I wouldn’t be alone in the kitchen. Isn’t he so sweet!?! I have an incriminating picture of him passed out, but I promised not to release it to the public just yet.